How racism takes place / George Lipsitz

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Contents: Introduction: Race, place, and power -- Social imaginaries and social relations. The white spatial imaginary -- The Black spatial imaginary -- Spectatorship and citizenship. Space, sports, and spectatorship in St. Louis -- The crime The wire couldn't name : social decay and cynical detachment in Baltimore -- A bridge for this book. Weapons of the weak and weapons of the strong -- Visible archives. Horace Tapscott and the world stage in Los Angeles -- John Biggers and project row houses in Houston -- Invisible archives. Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn -- Something left to love : Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago -- Race and place today. New Orleans today : we know this place -- A place where everybody is somebody
Summary: Argues that racism continues to the present day due to practices that force different racial groups into specific areas, where such commodities as education, transportation, and jobs are unevenly distributed to the residents based on the area.

2011

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic: Racism--Economic aspects; Income distribution; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Economic conditions; Human geography; Race relations; Social conditions